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On Mac OS X, I am running Flex Builder (which is basically a customized Eclipse). When I do a Find it beeps if it cannot find the selected text and when it wraps the search to the top.

Is it possible to turn off that beep? I've searched the internet and the preferences pane to no avail.

Jonathan Leffler
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I managed to bypass Eclipse default "run beep" on windows, by setting setting the "beep" sound to a silent .wav file

Alon
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You can get rid of it by turning down the alert volume system-wide in the Mac OS sound preferences (Sound -> Sound Effects -> Alert volume).

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Assuming you are running some kind of X Windows derivative, run these two commands from an terminal:

  • xset b off
  • xset b 0 0 0

You may add these to your .xinitrc or .bashrc to guarantee disabling on each system restart.

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On Linux you can disable this same (annoying) beep by blacklisting the pcspkr module.

None of these are solutions to the problem, however. To disable alert beeps system-wide is probably not what a person wants to do when they ask how to disable them in one specific application for one specific function.

If my smoke alarm keeps annoying me when I'm cooking then I can disconnect it, but that's probably not the best solution...

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I found a better solution, compared to the one that changes the 'beep' sound to a silent .wav file.

Settings -> System -> Sound -> App volume and device preferences (Scroll all the way down) -> System Sounds -> Slide it to 0

I am on Windows 10, and it worked for me. I had a beep sound whenever I typed = when assigning something to a variable.